More people have said that and been killed than there are thorium decay products.
4chan is a cruel, fun, interesting, angry young man with some biases and a tasteless sense of humor. He likes to shut himself in his room and play video games all day and his social skills are poor, so he doesn't have very many friends and he is bad at talking to girls. He works a shit job and wishes he could move out on his own. He indiscriminately hates humanity, including himself, but that doesn't stop him from grudgingly doing nice things sometimes. He misses his glory days of freaking people out with grotesque humor and pranks, back in high school, but unfortunately he performed poorly and didn't go to college, despite being more intelligent than average. Tumblr is his indignant little sister who can't stand him and feels a need to preach her beliefs about justice to all her friends and family, while fundamentally failing to understand the issues she talks about. She wants to be special and unique because she isn't popular at school and she's a bit of a nerd. She hates people with privilege but doesn't acknowledge her own privilege. She wants to have a boyfriend, if only she didn't hate boys. Her friends like to talk shit about her when she isn't around because she tends to get angry at people easily and she is often nasty to people. She thinks she will make the world a better place with her mouth but she doesn't actually do, or say, anything nice. She is bitter because her parents don't accept her vibrant personality. At least she does well in school and is sure she is headed to a good college.
Are we seriously comparing 4chan and tumblr? Because I don't think that's a defensible comparison to make.
4chan prides itself so much on lack of individuality that it created an internet persona centered entirely around how powerful anonymity made its community. Tumblr's problem, if anything, is that it has too much individuality, what with its obsession with labels and identities. The two are just so fundamentally opposed that comparisons can't be made.
And I'm not sure which community is more toxic, but the toxicity in Tumblr is much, much easier avoided than it is on 4chan.
i use tumblr and im blissfully unaware of all the bullshit that goes on there regarding stupid drama/teenagers being teenagers/kin weirdness. good luck trying to use 4chan without being unavoidably buried underneath a huge wave of dumbasses
i use tumblr and im blissfully unaware of all the bullshit that goes on there regarding stupid drama/teenagers being teenagers/kin weirdness. good luck trying to use 4chan without being unavoidably buried underneath a huge wave of dumbasses
Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.
The thing is, I know there's stupid shit going on. But even though I willfully blind myself, others don't, so I end up with people who keep talking about things I don't care about. And because I respect their opinion, I start believing that I should care. And the other half of me is trying to pull back into not caring.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
IMO if you're using Tumblr without at least PEEKING at the kin stuff and/or teenager drama from time to time you're missing out on a lot of laughs
4chan is a cruel, fun, interesting, angry young man with some biases and a tasteless sense of humor. He likes to shut himself in his room and play video games all day and his social skills are poor, so he doesn't have very many friends and he is bad at talking to girls. He works a shit job and wishes he could move out on his own. He indiscriminately hates humanity, including himself, but that doesn't stop him from grudgingly doing nice things sometimes. He misses his glory days of freaking people out with grotesque humor and pranks, back in high school, but unfortunately he performed poorly and didn't go to college, despite being more intelligent than average. Tumblr is his indignant little sister who can't stand him and feels a need to preach her beliefs about justice to all her friends and family, while fundamentally failing to understand the issues she talks about. She wants to be special and unique because she isn't popular at school and she's a bit of a nerd. She hates people with privilege but doesn't acknowledge her own privilege. She wants to have a boyfriend, if only she didn't hate boys. Her friends like to talk shit about her when she isn't around because she tends to get angry at people easily and she is often nasty to people. She thinks she will make the world a better place with her mouth but she doesn't actually do, or say, anything nice. She is bitter because her parents don't accept her vibrant personality. At least she does well in school and is sure she is headed to a good college.
I have quite honestly been both of those people at various times :O
4chan is a cruel, fun, interesting, angry young man with some biases and a tasteless sense of humor. He likes to shut himself in his room and play video games all day and his social skills are poor, so he doesn't have very many friends and he is bad at talking to girls. He works a shit job and wishes he could move out on his own. He indiscriminately hates humanity, including himself, but that doesn't stop him from grudgingly doing nice things sometimes. He misses his glory days of freaking people out with grotesque humor and pranks, back in high school, but unfortunately he performed poorly and didn't go to college, despite being more intelligent than average. Tumblr is his indignant little sister who can't stand him and feels a need to preach her beliefs about justice to all her friends and family, while fundamentally failing to understand the issues she talks about. She wants to be special and unique because she isn't popular at school and she's a bit of a nerd. She hates people with privilege but doesn't acknowledge her own privilege. She wants to have a boyfriend, if only she didn't hate boys. Her friends like to talk shit about her when she isn't around because she tends to get angry at people easily and she is often nasty to people. She thinks she will make the world a better place with her mouth but she doesn't actually do, or say, anything nice. She is bitter because her parents don't accept her vibrant personality. At least she does well in school and is sure she is headed to a good college.
If it were possible to condense such huge communities into single people, this would be it.
...Come to think of it, I seem to recall there were anthropomorphizations of tumblr and 4chan that got shipped at some point, but I can't remember any details. Probably for the best.
Someone re8logged something from me and tagged it with a trigger warning for "homestuck in url" (and "slurs in url", 8ut since my url is "sassyspider8itch" yeah ok you get a pass for that tag)
8ut "homestuck in url" as a trigger warning.
What.
Then again I've seen someone (not anyone I'm following, but someone whose 8logs I checked out 'cause someone re8logged an interesting post they made) asking for trigger warnings for popsicles. In 8ig 8old letters in the a8out section. "TAG YOUR POPSICLES"
I saw someone reblog a post about how to treat people who prefer "no pronouns", and it wasn't "tell them they're being both ridiculous and inconsiderate", so it made me sad.
On the other hand, for all that I complain about tumblr it brings me stuff like this which vastly outweighs the headaches.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I guess if you're gonna make up some "pronoun" that's unique enough that it's effectively just another name anyway, you might as well go all the way and just use no pronouns...?
I always think the "nounself" pronouns are nicknames anyway. Like if I see "Bun went to the store" I think the person 8eing referred to is named "Bun" rather than using it as a cutesy pronoun.
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Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
i use tumblr and im blissfully unaware of all the bullshit that goes on there regarding stupid drama/teenagers being teenagers/kin weirdness. good luck trying to use 4chan without being unavoidably buried underneath a huge wave of dumbasses
thanks tumblr radar
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
*Is friends with the legendary problematic John Green
i guess i just like giving people the benefit of the doubt